I don't believe there is a version of VMPlayer for Mac. Your best option is to either raise a track with SAS Support or register for SAS Online for Academics which should get you working until your problem can be fixed.

Hi, @skye. The error message you received indicates that either you tried to access the online store for SAS University Edition during a maintenance time, or there may be another issue with authorization.

What I would suggest is that if you have another browser installed, you try using that to download the SAS University Edition file. You can also try clearing your cache. Or you could also do a Shfit-Refresh to fetch the page when you see the "Permission Denied" issue.

The SAS University Edition file is about 2.1 GB and has a ".ova" file extension. As another poster indicated, there is not a separate OVA file for VMWare and VirtualBox. Since you are a Mac user, I'd recommend using VirtualBox.